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NeuStar, Inc. provides real-time information services and analytics worldwide. The company serves marketing and security functions in the communications, financial services, media and advertising, retail and e-commerce, Internet, and technology industries. Its integrated marketing solution enhances clients' ability to acquire and retain valuable customers across disparate platforms. The company provides marketing services, including customer intelligence services that provide scientific, cloud-based solutions to identify, verify, and segment existing and potential customers in real-time for marketing solutions, and fraud and risk mitigation; activation services, which enable online display ad targeting of prospect audiences and customers; and neutral media intelligence platform for measurement and optimization of multi-channel, and multi-device advertising campaigns and conversion-attribution analytics, as well as offers campaign conversion analytics that enable clients to measure advertising effectiveness. It also offers security services, such as domain name systems solutions to protect client's Internet ecosystem and transmission control protocol based applications, as well as provides load-testing analysis to help an enterprise prepare for severe stress to new and existing systems; and operates authoritative registries of Internet domain names for the .biz, .us, .co, .nyc, and .travel domains, as well as offers back-end support for generic top-level domains. In addition, it provides data services, such as carrier provisioning, caller-name identification, common short codes, and user authentication and rights management; and number portability administration center services comprising dynamic routing of calls and text messages among all competing communications service providers in the United States, and related connection services and system enhancements. NeuStar, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sterling, Virginia.

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NeuStar, Inc. Announces Directors Appointments

Jul 30 15

On July 16, 2015, the Board of Directors of NeuStar, Inc. voted to expand the size of the Board by two members from nine to eleven directors. Pursuant to Article III, Section 2 of the company's amended and restated bylaws, and acting upon the recommendation of its nominating and corporate governance committee, the board appointed Paul Ballew to serve as a Class III Director and Dr. Deborah Rieman to serve as Class I director, effective July 30, 2015. Mr. Ballew will serve as a member of the company's Audit Committee and continue in office as a Class III Director until the company's 2016 annual meeting of stockholders. Dr. Rieman will serve as a member of the company's compensation committee and continue in office as a Class I director until the company's 2017 annual meeting of stockholders.

Neustar, Inc. Announces Unaudited Consolidated Earnings Results for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended June 30, 2015; Reaffirms Earnings Guidance for the Year, 2015

Jul 30 15

NeuStar, Inc. announced unaudited consolidated earnings results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2015. For the quarter, the company reported revenue of $256,767,000 against $237,457,000 a year ago. Income from operations was $78,110,000 against $64,750,000 a year ago. Income before income taxes was $71,698,000 against $57,643,000 a year ago. Net income was $45,058,000 or $0.80 per diluted share against $36,847,000 or $0.61 per diluted share a year ago. Adjusted net income was $61,678,000 or $1.10 per diluted share against $57,649,000 or $0.95 per diluted share a year ago. Adjusted net income increase was driven primarily by a lower share count resulting from ongoing share repurchases. Capital expenditures for the quarter totaled $14.1 million. During the quarter, the company generated $113.4 million in operating cash flow, spent $7.3 million in capital expenditures and ended the quarter with cash of $412 million, strong cash flow generation was driven by lower cash tax payments, favorable receivables collections and lower capital expenditures.
For the six months, the company reported total revenue of $508,155,000 against $467,354,000 a year ago. Income from operations was $157,571,000 against $120,089,000 a year ago. Income before income taxes was $144,663,000 against $107,080,000 a year ago. Net income was $68,530,000 or $1.61 per diluted share against $91,272,000 or $1.11 per diluted share a year ago. Adjusted net income was $123,064,000 or $2.18 per diluted share against $110,053,000 or $1.79 per diluted share a year ago.
For the year 2015, the company increased revenue to range from $1.035 billion to $1.045 billion or growth of 7% to 8%, adjusted net income to range from $245 million to $255 million or a decline of 1% to 5%. In 2014, the company recorded $12.2 million of discrete tax items, adjusted net income per share to range $4.34 to $4.51 or flat to 4% growth. Adjusted net income guidance for 2015 contemplates an effective tax rate of 35%.

Neustar Launches New Version of PlatformOne Solution

Jul 22 15

Neustar, Inc. has launched a new version of its integrated marketing solution, PlatformOne. This next generation of PlatformOne includes features and enhancements wrapped into a more streamlined and tightly integrated user interface. PlatformOne is the industry's only fully-integrated platform using authoritative omni-channel identity, which enables marketers to onboard, segment, discover, syndicate, and measure cross-channel campaigns in order to maximize the effectiveness of their marketing investment. New or improved capabilities include a new audience planner tool; enhanced cross-device identity, revamped onboarding and syndication dashboards, enriched reach and overlap analytics; global support; and newly launched data and activation partners. The redesign of PlatformOne showcases an integrated marketing hub with enhanced market analytics and audience planning features. Marketers can now create target audiences from both first- and third-party data, and customize them by implementing sophisticated Boolean rules to balance both scale and precision requirements. The new audience planner contains optimized syndication workflows, which allow the activation of any custom audience within hours. The optimized syndication workflows, coupled with Neustar's ubiquitous and continuously expanding ecosystem of global media partners, create an optimal landscape for marketers to reach their customers and prospects at the right time, and in the right channel. The new version of PlatformOne is built on Neustar's cross-device identity layer, which uses Neustar's authoritative identity to establish more accurate linkages between consumers and their devices. This enables marketers to create richer and more accurate consumer profiles for enhanced personalization and more efficient media investments.

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